/todo notes make tickets
Inside a customer's message thread you can write an internal note — one only your team sees. If that note contains /todo, it becomes a ticket.
The ticket is linked to the customer whose thread you wrote in, and the rest of your note becomes the instruction on the ticket.
Tag someone to assign it
@-mention a teammate in the note and the ticket is assigned to them. If the person you tag does not have an account here, the ticket is still created but left unassigned, and an alert goes out so somebody notices.
Pick the type with a shortcut
By itself, /todo makes an Other ticket. Add a dash and the initials of a type to be specific:
- /todo-mc — Missed Call
- /todo-nc — Needs Callback
- /todo-ne — Needs Estimate
- /todo-nr — Needs Reply
- /todo-ns — Needs Scheduling
- /todo-o — Other
Get the shortcut wrong and nothing is lost: the ticket is created as Other, with a note recording what you typed. A /todo always produces a ticket.
An example
Writing "@Kathleen Williams /todo-nr angry client" in Davis Webb's thread opens a Needs Reply ticket on Davis Webb, assigned to Kathleen, saying "angry client".
Afterwards
These tickets behave like any other ticket of their type — the same things close them, and they are marked so you can see they came from a note.